Prison Architect: Staff meals I appear to be dumbfounded, I am not sure how to create a staff only canteen, and therefore, most of my staff are "pissed off". I'm having trouble fulfilling Food need for staff even though I've setup staff canteen and there are food on the trays. The new cellblock up top can be assigned manually perfectly fine, but for some reason we can't work out, the lower one will ONLY automatically assign to the northern one, and can't be moved anywhere else. 1. Suddenly everyone is constantly angry over food and potty needs. Hunger. Workmen chop down the tree to create 3 logs $50 value each. Rather than a 'how to' - this is designed to answer most of the new starter questions trying to answer why their room won't work or isn't recognised as. I just noticed a big problem with dirty tray, and I am not sure if it's a bug or not. Staff members are an imperative type of entity that must be hired in order for your prison to function correctly. There are a few steps to a well run prisoner canteen assignment. But both options result in them leaving a food tray (with food on it) behind. 2. This results into other staff being unable to use the staff canteen anymore, because there are no clean trays left. It seems like they get stuck, like they all want to sit on the same chair but can't. The optimum size of a canteen is 11x9 squares (10x9 also works fine). ago. (see Section 06e) Update 12 added an overall "staff morale". All you need is a serving table in the staff room (s) and link any kitchen for the trays to be cleaned. Well the problem is that in my prison every cell-area has got his own canteen. It may seem absurd when running your prison, but having too much security can actually cause more problems. Once it begins to pile up just use the "Sell Objects" tool and run it across your Workshop. Requirements: Objects: Bench / Bench (Small) / Bench (Oak) / Diner Booth Table / Table (Small) / Table (Oak) / Dining table (Large) / Dining. Pages:Yard. Prison Architect. AHHhhh, that was the problem. This is kinda buggy. Trees are bought for $100 and planted by Gardener in the forestry area. Make sure you allow enough time for them to get to the staff canteen and eat. a) reduce the Yard to the reasonable size, put the lake on the yard to lower the yard-tiles count to stop that guards roaming there (the more yard tiles the more natural guard tendency to roam around) b) no guards on the cell blocks / common room / canteen - use Orderlies. Just a simple tutorial, based on guesses and little experience. By definition the staff room is for staff so it doesn't need to be marked in deployment (though I. #1. Prison Labour allows you to use your prisoners to work around your prison (cooking, cleaning, and workshop duty) saving you on staff wages, earning you money, and teaching your prisoners new skills at the same time. However, it is possible to successfully run a prison without using all of them. I forgot i was only allowing medium prisoners thru a certain space, and it prevented them from reaching the canteen. Quick-reference guide on how to handle prisoner and staff need in Prison Architect. Every other office mark as "Staff Only" If you made a whole block of offices, divide psychologist's ofgice and the other ones, using. #2. I also have trouble putting in an optimal heating throughout, so I browsed the most popular prisons in the last 3. There is a restroom next to the Staff Canteen and Staff Room. but in fact you must at the beginning build very much. i-like-yogurt • 5 yr. 8. A Laundry room needs Prison Labour to be able to have dirty prisoner clothes collected and washed. You can check what needs your prisoners have by hovering over them: a tooltip will pop up, showing you the status of their needs. MisterSpock Sep 10, 2016 @ 6:58am. Quick-reference guide on how to handle prisoner and staff need in Prison Architect. In many cases, if you zone canteens in the halls of cell blocks, you ruin the cell block's functioning. You can expand it past 2 as well, 3, 4, 5 canteens works easily, set one up for Protective Custody, one for Supermax, no problem. Try placing TVs and toilets in your Canteen, and toilets in your Yard, to start. In other words, your staff members won't use the tables and benches of the staff canteen and use those unassigned areas instead. Prison Architect. Heat the prison and have enough janitors, plus look to see if there is pee everywhere. I also only have 5 workmen. 2 if canteen serves high variety meals. i cant connect the canteen with the. Modified 11 months ago. Take your prison to the next level with fixes and upgrades thanks to the Free for Life update! Prison Architect: Free for Life Key Features: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - After spending an extended period of time in your prison, inmates will change both visually and functionally, developing different needs compared to younger ones. Kitchens will be assigned to nursery automatically and deliver food there as if they were canteens. This room functions to re-energize your tired Staff members. In logistics make sure you assign that staffroom to a kitchin (hold shift and click to rooms/canteens for multiple assignments) 4. Staff will only eat on their break time. I do think it's the trays because there is loads of them left in the canteen with eaten food. This has happened in multiple prisons in a row. Not sure what to do. 2. When this happens I have to dump the food in the staff canteen and after new food arrived they sometimes eat again and stop beeing. What, in your opinion/experince do you think is the best range for temperature? My current prison kinda bakes these idiots, but honestly I don't really notice any difference due to the overheating status. If you let all your prisoners live in quality "10. Change your staff canteen to a staff room. Destruction Escape Attempt Attack Prisoner Attack Staff Murder Serious Injury Intoxication Found. Prioritize Guards of all staff and get them on patrols in highly-populated areas - cell blocks, canteen, visitation. The Snack machine improves the room grade of the following rooms: Canteen. Hire more cooks. #6. Inmates are granted a parole. Access only means that prisoners or staff will only go there if they have to to get to another room with no other path there. Water Cooler. With the addition of staff meals in Update 11 (and the dirty trays that come with. The kitchen has 16 cookers, 8 fridges, 4 sinks, and 10 cooks (plus prison labor). Btw door tiles must not be zoned. STAFF do NOT meet any needs anywhere prisoners go. However, Food Trays are still needed and handled as usual by cooks. Staff food comes in by truck (cooks don't prepare it). The starving is definitely causing the deaths because I'm not notified of them, so they can't be from fights. . Nick, try to optimize the prisoner canteens & kitchens and then the staff canteens will run nicely as well. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. This is the only thing keeping my prison from running flawlessly right now. Click on the Foundations tool and select the Building Sub-Button to create the Office Building. Begineer's guide to Prison Architect [ENG/PL] By Roczo and 2 collaborators. The staff canteens are filled with dirty trays but the staff food is actually on the serving table. It's a bug. Seems to fix a lot of PA problems. Yes I do have micromanagement researched. 9 9 comments Kromatikal • 1 yr. Also sofas in there as well. The capacity of a dormitory is 1 prisoner per 4 squares, with 1 exception. Note: the constant flow of incoming stacks of ingredients to your kitchen makes it a common place for. This makes sense, considering your regular guards aren’t carrying around guns, while your armored guards are. I have been playing a new prison and everything was fine until all of a sudden my staff have stopped eating. You've just got to have more indoor areas where the staff spend all their time. Showing 1 - 7 of 7 comments. Medium quantity meals are composed of 2 ingredients. These prisoners have committed serious crimes, such as murder, bodily harm and torture. maybe you will find the mistake. the staff canteen and staff room. all set to Staff. Get Busy Living (Silver): Achieve a reoffending rate of 25% or lower in Prison Architect mode on a standard difficulty. These include: Tables ( Table, Table (Small), Table (Oak), Dining Table (Large), Dining Table (Small), or Diner Booth) Chairs/Benches ( Bench, Bench (Small), Bench (Oak), Dining Chair, or Dining Booth) Serving Tables Tips You must first research deployment and set a canteen to staff only to make a staff canteen. It's a bug. If they are stocked then you have excess and just need to wait for your staff to get through them. An existing one is enough. Such proportions let you place 4 serving tables, 20 benches and 20 tables (therefore they let. Cooks will come collect dirty trays when needed and bring them back once they clean. Also sofas in there as well. The different ingredients used to cook meals from. Make it Staff only. Staff Meals get delivered and carried in by Workmen. The main cause of a riot are when. You have to put all of that in a staff canteen via laying down a canteen and painting it as staff-only in deployments. (edited by A Fandom user) 0. (Emergency - red, Cells - Orange, Common. [SIN7] jacojarek56 Dec 28, 2016 @ 8:35pm. txt, but it could also any other mod, too. The other two issues (sofa and drink machine) are pretty clear - you need to add those. The cooks will deliver them there. Mail rooms and laundry don't add to contraband, so regular doors are probably fine for them. Then I had a smaller kitchen + canteen for PC, that didn't work so fine due to distance and mad cooks. Prisoners use money they have earned by working. Hire more guards and increase their patrols. Prison Architect. Common Rooms or hallways without room designations don't have this effect. Also, make sure the canteen and the path to it is not marked as staff only or for other security level. Add another serving table in the canteen. The response by u/BroCookie has good information regarding how the staff rooms and staff canteens should be used in general. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their. They have nowhere to eat build them tables. By default, the staff canteen should have priority -- I also have no explanation, that they are not using the staff room for example, where sofas also exist. no need benches, chairs and sofas are enough. How to satisfy safety: This is easily fixed by dispatching more guards. Damaged food trays are automatically replaced. Also have a full serving unit in the staffroom that isn't used as well. But because more prisoners live in one room, they may. This ratio changes depending on your policy on food. The chapter starts with Doctor Walter Hurst visiting the Solitary wing of the new prison. On a side note, just my opinion, that one office you built looks like it could be 4. And place a prison door at the entrance - you may leave it open if you want to, but there must be a door. Spawning a lot of cooks into the staff canteen solves this problem, but after a minute they will go idle again. It worked pretty good, until i finished my 4th canteen. Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am. Originally posted by lissa_981:Status Effects. The cell block in question used to eat at the canteen I want to assign it to, untill I built the new one. Staff member types can be categorised into five different groups, which are defined below. So these abandoned food trays are just sitting there, and they arent being picked up again or cleaned or dumped. Prisoner D (Max Sec) gets food from a guard at 10am. The meal quantity will affect the amount of food each hungry prisoner will consume and therefore the amount of meals your Cooks will have to prepare. Make sure you allow enough time for them to get to the staff canteen and eat. If staff needs are enabled, they visit the staff room during their breaks to fulfil various needs. 0 | First draft. Doctor. #1. 1 serving table = 2 cookers. In small scale prisons you need only on kitchen and one. You have to build a fence around your prison. A Staff Canteen is comprised of all of the objects used to make a standard Canteen for your Prisoners. You have no direct control over whether they are interested in taking. Using the "Deployment" tab, which is accessable through the "Warden > Security > Deployment", you can set permissions for each room. Version 2. Alternatively, you can connect buildings together with long corridors. A cook must wash the dirty trays in a sink and put them back on the serving table. Ingredients arrive in a delivery truck and are then transferred from the deliveries to the fridges by the cooks. The kitchen is only used for sending cooks for cleaning trays in the staff room/canteen assigned to it. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their food need. If they are locked up between 10pm to 8am they. 7) Don't use prisoners in your Kitchen. Description: Where your prisoners will take their afternoon tea. Guards and prisoners can attempt to retake classes they fail if they choose to. If it detects any spawned staff it will activate, but won't activate if a prisoner is also in the range. Radiator generates heat up to 20°C (68°F), excluding the tile on which radiator is placed which has 21°C (69°F). For every prisoner entering the prison, there is a 2$ charge for their food tray. Sectors allow the player to control the housing and flow of Prisoners in their. Water. Way too many staff meals bug. So, in more specific: Prisoner A (Med Sec) goes to the canteen at 8am to get his breakfast. I think you want to do it separately. Workmen. When opening the deployment menu an overlay is activated that shows the designations,. Per page: 15 30 50. They will rest and sit on sofas, use recreational objects, and they will also eat here if there is no staff canteen nearby and there is a Serving Table in the room. Unlocked: GreenA canteen in a staff-only area becomes a staff canteen, used by guards during their break. The solution to fix this is to check your sinks and if the trays are still on the todo take to sink, but already there, you have to dump them for a cook to continue cleaning trays. My current staff morale is 35% and is more or less stable. A Fandom user · 8/9/2015. I always play like this, today it doesn't work. Staff prefers to pass through this zone if multiple paths are available. Prisoner B (Med Sec) is in Permanent Punishment - a guard will bring him a small portion of food at 8am. Thirteen months into a five year sentence. Prison Architect. The different ingredients used to cook meals from. ago. Spike Dec 28, 2016 @ 12:06pm. Prison Architect. Using the "Deployment" tab, which is accessable through the "Warden > Security > Deployment", you can set permissions for each room. Not sure if everyone has this problem but I always have a staff canteen (Canteen designated for staff only) but I have always had the problem where food trays pile up without getting washed. It often is one of the first rooms built in your prison, as you can save money over individual cells. Hey guys, my problem is that my 4th canteen isn´t working correctly. Yes, it works. You actually only need one table. This mechanic works. High quantity meals are. Not sure how to fix the lack of serving trays tho. You select the number and length of the breaks. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Can be improved with Padded Floor that will cater to the safety need of prisoners who are inside. Ok, built a new prison of the same size and only placed one canteen and staff room. Show me a screenshot of your regime and the workplace/classroom you wish to use. The Staff Member will seek out a toilet in the Staff Room (or any staff-only sector) when taking a break. Staff Only: Purple: Prisoners are not allowed to enter this sector and will attempt to path around it if possible. HI that i dont know about iv only seen it done with solitery or permanent lock down. Also please double check in the food distribution menu that a kitchen is connected to the staffroom/staff canteen so that the trays will be collected and replaced. Staff canteens are not stocked by your prison's kitchens, but from the outside with prepackaged staff meals. Have various vending machines, coffee machines, water coolers/fountains and orange juice tables around your prison to settle the Luxuries/Food needs for prisoners and Comfort/Food needs for Staff members. 1:10 Low. *Staff doesn´t seem to fullfill their needs, even thou they are on break and the means to fullfill the need are in the vincinity. Don't use staff canteen they seem bugged. Rest: The Staff Member is tired and needs to take a break. Spike Dec 28, 2016 @ 12:06pm. Yes, the food is fully stocked. The only 'trick' should be corectly set logistics (shift + click) and having good access to the rooms. A Fandom user · 11/1/2015 in Questions and Answers. In the Kitchen, cooks also wash dirty food trays in the sink. Short answer is you need an external fence otherwise the game will not allow your prisoners to walk to your canteen. Problem solved I had 10 cooks storm the 'staff canteen' on a mission to clean the trays. It's the place where the Prisoners can catch some fresh air, exercise or relax. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. Joe Dorito Mar 2, 2014 @ 12:28pm. 1. 7) Don't use prisoners in your Kitchen. Prison Architect • How to Assign Prisoners to a Canteen Advance management will guide prisoners to the set canteens and help with prisoner safety. This profile can be accessed by left clicking on any prisoner in-game. Before starting this guide, it is highly recommended that you complete the campaigns first. Common room. More complications for the prison. So the staff canteen runs out of clean trays for guards to use. Jump to latest Follow Reply. Also, make sure the canteen and the path to it is not marked as staff only or for other security level. I am on the verge of rage quitting. it doesnt seem to work the other way around for some reason. How to make staff canteens work. With staff canteen ( canteen with staff only) the cooks again put trays in here and when time is permitted and you have enough cooks they will pick them up. (see Section 07a) One option for feeding your employees is a staff canteen. This chapter teaches about Reform Programs and Prison Labour. Showing 1 - 13 of 13 comments. Once unlocked, you get access to the Deployment tab in the menu bar, which offers a bunch of selections: There, select "Staff Only", and click on the area you want to change: This means that only staff are allowed to enter. This room functions to re-energize your tired Staff members. Like every good tycoon, it requires a well-thought strategy and long-term plans, as well as a deep analysis of the game mechanics. jamesc70 Aug 8, 2013 @ 10:46am. I usually put the tables, benches, and serving table inside the staff room. Prison Architect. It also fulfills a prisoners 'freedom' need and several others if relevant objects are placed. I did that with the prison architect calculator, which show me exactly how many of each item. My prison only has 34 prisoners, I was expanding before hand to prepare for 68 prisoners, and a few in-game days after expansion I ran into problems. Seigest. Dipply Oct 19, 2015 @ 8:19pm. However, Food Trays are still needed and handled as usual by cooks. ago. Staff was happy and everything was great. Radiators help to warm up the rooms of your prison if the weather/temperature system is activated. The clone tool is useful for creating multiple instances of an already existing room or area. I have serving, trays, benches and tables set up in the canteen but no one touches the food on display. Whereas “Jail Doors” are very secure, they require a guard to open them for any staff or prisoner to pass through. So sacking and spawning cooks might help this out. In the meantime (if you don't have it researched yet) you can place a Staffroom with Food table and some. Give the staffbreak times enough time to get to rooms needed. Nursery is a room that was introduced in update 2 along. Staff canteens are not stocked by your prison's kitchens, but from the outside with prepackaged staff meals. The staff canteen is still not getting cleaned, even being way over staffed and installing sinks as well. However, Food Trays are still needed and handled as usual by cooks. This is kinda buggy. Four hours before it is time to eat, cooks will start cooking using cookers. You can connect multiple by holding left shift. Make sure every staff room has multiple toilets. I did that with the prison architect calculator, which show me exactly how many of each item. #2. Gym. Wolf202020 · 8/10/2015. The weird thing is that some do. They can even spawn with a gun!So, for a canteen supplying a cell block of 76 prisoners, there should only be 2 serving tables, 8 cookers in the kitchen with 12 or so fridges (it's ok to skimp on the fridges a bit), 2 sinks, and 10 cooks to run everything. Doc_McStabbins Jul 23, 2015 @ 7:38am. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. The Small Bench is very. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. A Screenshot of Prison Architect. They hold up the break rotation for everybody else, which pisses them off. Key Features:Customized ConfinementAllocate resources to optimize your compound, but don’t restrict the flow of the crowd lest you encounter a flood, fire, fight, or full-blown riot. Yes I do have micromanagement researched 2. I've seen in most discussions about the staff canteens and how everyone thinks its a bug, but it isnt, and its really easy, link a kitchen with a staff canteen, if you set a kitchen to the staff canteen, you'll notice that it will disappear, but what happens next is that those cooks in the kitchen will clean the. I know that however I wanted to know if guards can also bring food to the cells of prisoners without them being in permanent lockdown. #1. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty. You can expand it past 2 as well, 3, 4, 5 canteens works easily, set one up for Protective Custody, one for Supermax, no problem. Share. Hire more cooks. View of sectors in the Deployment menu. Nearly my entire staff is pissed off from the food need, and the fully stocked and equipped staff canteen is completely unused. Cooks likely to ignore the fact, that the staff canteen ran out of trays, and they won't refill it. Therefore guards should be stationed in the yards. Executions have to be unlocked by Death Row research of the Lawyer. Feel free to add your own. A canteen in a staff-only area becomes a staff canteen, used by guards during their break. Most likely Grant mods copied an old materials. Invest and InnovateTap federal money with grant applications & direct your funds to combat. #1. Nov 23, 2022; Add bookmark #3The only way to get them unstuck is by either forcing them to move to a different location, or firing them. away from that, i would remove the door to the shower room, and marke the shower room also as dormitory, so that the shower are within the dormitory. 1. Fire and re-hire. Therefore guards should be stationed in the yards. I am facing a weird problem in my new prison on update 11. For high security. They need to sit on a couch as part of the staff room. Bump. It simply will not let us assign it to that canteen. - Lots of staff meals in the. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. This is how the game is codded: put something to the delivery boxes > send to prison > unpack > tell the staff to move to specific room > grabbed by prisoner. Requirements The first step is to use bureaucracy to unlock micromanagement, Once researched it unlocks advanced features that allow you to have control. Try rezoning the kitchen and canteen again. Continue reading to be able to ensure that prisoners in your prison don. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. #10. A lot of my staff are "pissed off", and when I go the the needs tab, the only major one I see (that most staff are extremely mad about) is food. Make one of your more centralised staffrooms large enough to have canteen equipment. They rarely use toilets and serving table and complain there standing and pissed off. I'm having trouble fulfilling Food need for staff even though I've setup staff canteen and there are food on the trays. Viewed 123k times. My prisoners are just vibrating back and forth in the canteen. Nobody is taking care of the staff canteen. Guard do not eat anymore after some days they get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ of even if there is food in the staff canteen. Insecure path Prisoners could potentially escape on their way to the canteen. The mostly need bladder bowels and food but. Edit: Picture of single land parcel; 250 cells (or so). x6 School Desk. #2. Usually the AI does an adequate job at figuring this out on its own, but sometimes you need to set this up manually. First of all, as suggested: Check Deployment menu and deactivate any security restrictions based on the canteen (the kitchen can still be staff only) Then, after you have done that: Unlock from bureaucracy the Logistics menu and make sure there is a YELLOW route leading from. If staff needs are enabled, they visit the staff room during their breaks to fulfil various needs. You could make it so their patrols spend time inside and outside. 35 on break and 35 need a break (pis*ed off)! The other 20 guards can hardly handle 140 prisoners on their own. I've tried to load a new prison disable all mods and make sure that they have a non obstruted path to it. Staff member types can be categorised into five different groups, which are defined below. Be sure you are clicking FROM the kitchen TO the canteen, not the other way around. Yellow means your gaurds think the area is unsecured. Dirty Trays Everywhere = SOLVED (partially) Okay, I have posted this problem before but never got a clear answer of why it starts to happen. All misconducts fall under one of 10 incident categories. Or it spawns at Deliveries when you use my Tweaked Staff Food mod. Showing 1 - 1 of 1 comments. Staff canteens are not stocked by your prison's kitchens, but from the outside with prepackaged staff meals.